Greetings!
As previously announced, the town hall for the Fedora Engineering
Steering Committee (FESCo) is today, May 31, 2011.
The town hall will be taking place at 1800 UTC (2pm US-Eastern).
For information on how to participate, please see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join
Further information about the elections, including the schedule and
process, can be seen here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
There are 5 seats open in this FESCo election, and 8 candidates. Please
consider attending the town hall today, and bringing your questions to
be asked of the nominees during the course of the town hall.
A summary and the IRC log will be posted and linked from the wiki after
the discussion, if you're unable to watch it live.
FESCo candidates and their information can be seen here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
Cheers,
Robyn

Here is this week's change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
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The systemd guidelines on naming unit files have been amended to tell
packagers how to make compatibility symlinks for alternate service names
should their service have had a different name in the past.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Naming
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These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to the Fedora Community, and all of the members of the FPC,
for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.
As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
Thanks,
~spot

Hi folks:
The responses to the questionnaire are now posted:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_elections_questionnaire
Responses are divided by elected body and then appear in the order the
responses arrived in my inbox.
Please take a moment to look over them to better prepare yourselves
for the upcoming elections.
I'd also like to thank the nominees who took the time to answer the questions.
Cheers,
David Nalley

Hi folks,
Just announcing that there'll be an IRC town hall with the FESCo
election candidates on Tuesday May 31st, at 1800UTC (2pm
US/Eastern.)
You can join #fedora-townhall-public to ask questions of the moderators,
which will be posed and answered by the candidates in #fedora-townhall.
More information is available here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join
A summary and the irc log will be posted and linked from the wiki after
the discussion, if you're unable to watch it live.
Thanks,
David Nalley

Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
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A section has been added to the SysVInitScript guidelines covering the
optional situation where a package that uses systemd unit files as the
default also includes sysv initscripts in a subpackage:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript#Initscripts_in_ad...
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The GIO scriptlets have been changed to not conditionalize the %post
invocation. This works around a multilib issue.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GIO_modules
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The guideline that prohibits Fedora packages from using /srv has been
updated to better represent what the FHS has to say about /srv and to
clarify the expectations for Fedora packages which may be configured to
use /srv.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_Files_or_Directori...
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It was brought to the FPC's attention that while the new Guidelines
covering MinGW packaging were technically correct, Fedora 16 did not yet
contain the necessary toolchain to support the new Guidelines, nor was
it clear that it would arrive in rawhide anytime soon.
Accordingly, the "old" MinGW guidelines were put back in place at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW
The "new" MinGW guidelines remain approved, but are not active and
packagers should not use them at this time. If/when the necessary
toolchain components are packaged in Fedora, these guidelines will be
re-enabled.
In addition, the current MinGW guidelines were improved slightly to
support the "new" SRPM naming standard. This is intended to prevent new
MinGW packages from having to be re-reviewed when the "new" MinGW
guidelines take effect.
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These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to Kalev Lember, Matthew Miller, Michael Schwendt, and all
of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and
passing these guidelines.
As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
Thanks,
~spot

Please take a moment and read this brief email, as it is important.
Fedora is in the process of retiring our old "Individual Contributor
License Agreement" (also known as the ICLA or CLA) and replacing it with
the new Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA).
All Fedora contributors with accounts in the Fedora Account System
(https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts) who have agreed to the old
CLA *MUST* agree to the new FPCA by June 17, 2011 to continue
contributing to Fedora.
Here is how you do this:
1) Login to the Fedora Account System:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts
2) Once logged in, click on the "My Account" link in the blue box on the
left side of the window.
3) On the page that loads, you will see a section labeled "Account
Details". Look for the line that says "Contributor Agreement". On that
line, you should see a new section that says:
"New CLA Not Signed - We need contributors to sign the new Contributor
Agreement(Complete it now!)"
Click on "Complete it now!" and follow the prompts.
*****
It is important that Fedora Account holders who have signed the old
Fedora CLA sign the new FPCA. We have allotted a window of one month for
Fedora contributors to agree to the FPCA. This means that after June 17,
2011, any Fedora Contributors who have not agreed to the FPCA will have
their "cla_done" flag set to False. This also means that any groups that
they are in which are dependent upon "cla_done", such as "packager",
"ambassador", and Fedora People access will be removed.
There are a few accounts which are exempt from this, specifically,
accounts which are members of the "cla_dell", "cla_intel", and
"cla_redhat" groups. If you do not know what these groups are, you are
probably not in them. :) Accounts in these groups will not see the "New
CLA Not Signed" line on their "My Account" page, and do not need to take
any action at this time.
Please take a minute and login to FAS to agree to the terms of the FPCA,
to avoid loss of access.
More information about the FPCA, including the final FPCA text, can be
found here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement
If you have any additional questions about the FPCA or the re-signing
process, please feel free to email me directly at legal(a)fedoraproject.org.
Thanks,
Tom Callaway, Fedora Legal
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Fedora Project

There has been an amendment to the requirements for candidates to
elected (and appointed) roles in Fedora's Community, including (but not
limited to) the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, and
the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee.
Specifically, candidates must not be a citizen of an export-restricted
country (see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Export#Embargoed_Destinations|Legal/...
for the list of export restricted countries).
This requirement is applicable immediately, and will apply to candidates
for this upcoming election as well.
Unfortunately, the laws in the United States which Fedora and Red Hat
are subject to place very tight restrictions on the involvement of
citizens of certain countries. Fedora has made its position on this
issue known here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Embargoed_nations
Thank you for your understanding,
Tom Callaway
Fedora Legal